“When we meet someone and fall in love, we have a sense that the whole universe is on our side. And yet if something goes wrong, there is nothing left! How is it possible for the beauty that was there only minutes before to vanish so quickly? Life moves very fast. It rushes from heaven to hell in a m…”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I think I fell in love with her, a little bit. Isn’t that dumb? But it was like I knew her. Like she was my oldest, dearest friend. The kind of person you can tell anything to, no matter how bad, and they’ll still love you, because they know you. I wanted to go with her. I wanted her to notice me. A…”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“The purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., amazon.com
“Learning to let go should be learned before learning to get. Life should be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at others move forward with it.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“I wanted to look ahead to where I was going, not back at what I was leaving, but then I turned anyway.”— Jeannette Walls, amazon.com
“But just because you're strong and resilient doesn't mean you never need someone to be there for you, to take care of you.”— Tammara Webber, amazon.com
“In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“Do not shorten the morning by getting up late, or waste it in unworthy occupations or in talk; look upon it as the quintessence of life, as to a certain extent sacred. Evening is like old age: we are languid, talkative, silly. Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every…”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.”— Arthur Schopenhauer, amazon.com
“You can get bad love anywhere. But letting good love in is an entirely different thing.”— Ryan O'Connell, youtube.com
“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”— Gloria Steinem, elle.com
“I have so much to say to you. I want to begin at the beginning, because that is what you deserve. I want to tell you everything, without leaving out a single detail. But where is the beginning? And what is everything?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I guess my life hasn’t always been happy, or easy, or exactly what I wanted. At a certain point, I just have to try not to think too much about certain things, or else they’ll break my heart.”— Jonathan Franzen, amazon.com
“It broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can’t people say what they mean at the time?”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“It's hard to show people everything, you know? You never know what they'll do with it once they have it.”— Nick Burd, amazon.com